Welcome to the bright red bouncing-ball world of Cindique Sanders-Lassiter in this slick, sleak, sexy tale from the undisputed master of literary erotica, Preston L. Allen.

Cindique is in love with Roderick Redd, the cutest phone pro at McDarc Inc., but can she save him from the clutches of their boss, Groan of Dark? In the meantime, Cindique herself is being pursued by the violent wildman with the pretty, pretty shoes, who still holds the key to her apartment and her heart.

"Bounce" is rejection and reversal. Bounce is making love to words. "Bounce" is the one who'll always be there...

Sheba Mathis seems to have it all. A handsome fiance and a successful business in an upscale Miami mall. But all is not as it seems. Sheba's fiance is anything but faithful. Worse yet, he scarcely conceals his contempt for her poetry (in her notebooks and in her heart).

Along comes the lowly Sol, who dares to woo the beautiful but sad businesswoman by reciting her own poetry to her. When her fiance finds out, he uses his influence to get Sol fired from his job as a mall security guard.

Much to everyone's surprise, Sol returns the next day as the manager of the shoe store across from...

Preston L. Allen's witty, charming, and very likable school bus driver--named P--is a desperate gambler. He has blown the hundred thousand dollars he won at the casino six months ago, but his wife and family still think he's loaded. P spins out of control on the addict's downward spiral of dependency, paranoia, and depression, as he must find ways to keep coming up with the money to fool his family and fund his growing addiction. The bets get bigger and bigger, until finally, faced with the ultimate financial crisis, he hits it really big. Yet winning, he soon learns, is just the beginning of...

"Allen has created a consummate tragicomedy of African Americanfamily secrets and sorrows, and of faith under duress and wide open to interpretation. Perfect timing andcrackling dialogue, as well as heartrending pain balanced by uproarious predicaments, make for a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace, a gospel of lusty and everlasting love."
--Booklist

"Like Dostoyevsky, Allen colorfully evokes the gambling milieu--the chained (mis)fortunes of the players, their vanities and grotesqueries, their quasi-philosophical ruminations on chance. Like Burroughs, he is...